Eskoms's Approach to Standardisation of the Process Control Strategies and Philosophies within its Power Plants

摘要

Eskom must adopt new strategies and philosophies, in line with the new technologies to optimise the success of these projects. Specially in the control and instrumentation field there have been extensive changes over the years, and the potential now exists to introduce many new products, This must however be co-ordinated to ensure that consistent approaches are used for aspects such as operator interfaces, maintenance strategies, system configurations, conformance to standards etc. In order to address these co-ordination issues, certain methodologies are being developed by Eskom to manage them from a more centralised viewpoint. One major approach is to develop a standardised philosophy to many of the issues such as having common purchase contracts for all sites for instrumentation, developing Eskom's own standards for topics like HMIs, plant protection systems, plant information systems, training simulators etc.